{"id":4238,"date":"2016-04-07T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2016-04-06T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:31:45","slug":"business-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/business-basketball","title":{"rendered":"Business &#038; Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Business-and-Basketball-image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Business-and-Basketball-image.jpg\" alt=\"Business and Basketball image\" width=\"159\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Business-and-Basketball-image.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Business-and-Basketball-image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat is the old saying? Life imitates art\u2026or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>I think sports imitate life and vice versa, in many instances.<\/p>\n<p>Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s college basketball Final 4 games concluded this week\u2026<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/cmsezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/cmsezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/3F6A9ADD-C0CE-702F-41274D365E1EEDAF.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\nThere are so many parallels between an athlete and a business owner. For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>There are a lot of sacrifices and things you give up to excel<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>The patience of learning skills and then becoming great at it<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>Practice that it takes to refine your craft<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>Use and need of good coaches<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>Grit, determination and perseverance to keep going\u2026even when you feel like quitting<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>\u221a\u00a0<\/strong>Both put in hours and hours of training<\/p>\n<p>And, the training is varied and constant because there is always something to brush up on or something new to learn \u2013 in both business and athletics.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I&#8217;m hosting my next event June 15-16, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia, to give you the answers to all the questions you currently have about Marketing Funnels, Email Sequences and Increasing Your Sales Conversions. You\u2019re going to want to be at the <strong><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.SuccessfulMarketingFunnels.com\" target=\"_blank\">Successful Marketing Funnels\u2122<\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/em><\/strong> event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prosperity &amp; Abundance to You &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>PS \u2013 I\u2019d love for you to leave a comment or share the post! Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the old saying? Life imitates art\u2026or something like that. I think sports imitate life and vice versa, in many instances. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s college basketball Final 4 games concluded this week\u2026 There are so many parallels between an athlete and a business owner. For example: \u221a\u00a0There are a lot of sacrifices&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/business-basketball\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,58,24,32,1,601],"tags":[13,10,735,738,734,44,737,739],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-general","category-business-strategy","category-articles-info-marketing","category-articles-marketing","category-uncategorized","category-video","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-email-sequences","tag-increasing-sales-conversion","tag-marketing-funnels","tag-small-business","tag-small-business-marketing-help","tag-successful-marketing-funnels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}